Hey! I wrote an adventure for the Living Land realm of Torg, and I got to see it established--and surpassed--as a stretch goal in the first couple of hours of the Kickstarter. The Living Land Kickstarter is ongoing, and looks to have a lot of great stuff. To be honest, I always considered the Living Land the least interesting of the cosms, but this new incarnation is packed with adventure and is a great place to set an entire campaign of its own. The Kickstarter is here.

I've recently had a revelation about Torg that I wanted to share: it doesn't play like an RPG, but like a board game or card game.

One of the defining features of RPGs, particularly those like Dungeons and Dragons or Pathfinder, is the fluid start and stop positions, and preserving your state from game to game. Say you finish killing a bunch of kobolds in the Caves of Chaos and you know there's a minotaur in the caverns up ahead. You look at the clock, realize it's past 11 pm, and everyone dec... Continue reading ...

I just got back from GenCon 2016, an exciting and game-packed long weekend. Although I had many fun games--some of which I'll touch on in future blog entries--the highlight for me was the chance to slip into a sold-out game of Torg.

I've been a fan of Torg since the 90s, and the news that Ulisses Spiele was relaunching the game put me into a tizzy last year. News has been slow, however, until last week. Although the rulebook is very sparse (only 31 pages, akin to a quick-start set of rules) an... Continue reading ...